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Best of the Grammys' 110 Categories

Some commendable contenders amid all the confusion

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Jim Fusilli

Updated Feb. 7, 2009 11:59 p.m. ET

Following a year in which CD sales and album downloads were down 14% from 2007, a celebration by the recording industry may seem as unwarranted as one by the shipping industry would have been as the Titanic was sinking.

But celebrate it will at Sunday's Grammy Awards gala, which will be broadcast with much hubbub by CBS. In doing so, the Recording Academy will present music as spectacle and hand out awards to a mixed bag of talented...